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http://tomatousb.org/forum/t-349778#post-1132957Re: How about 3Tb external HDD in tomato firmwarehttp://tomatousb.org/forum/t-349778/how-about-3tb-external-hdd-in-tomato-firmware#post-1132957
Fri, 22 Apr 2011 06:51:41 +0000davygravy521940
I'm not sure, I don't know if it can be hacked to run Debian. Looks like a good question for Google.
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Fri, 22 Apr 2011 06:43:09 +0000Big_gray
How about Seagate STAM3000200 or STAW3000200 ? LS-CHL very hard to find in Ukraine…
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http://tomatousb.org/forum/t-349778#post-1132946Re: How about 3Tb external HDD in tomato firmwarehttp://tomatousb.org/forum/t-349778/how-about-3tb-external-hdd-in-tomato-firmware#post-1132946
Fri, 22 Apr 2011 06:34:54 +0000davygravy521940
Yes, see the Buffalo LS-CHL …http://www.buffalotech.com/products/network-storage/home-and-small-office/linkstation-live-ls-chl/ also…http://forum.buffalo.nas-central.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=4075&start=135
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Fri, 22 Apr 2011 06:26:14 +0000Big_gray
Ok, about NAS - is there one-disk NAS-es with possibility to install optware on it and performance above RT-N16 in torrents, as file-server, as small web-werver etc…

Sorry, me english is half-google :)

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http://tomatousb.org/forum/t-349778#post-1132905Re: How about 3Tb external HDD in tomato firmwarehttp://tomatousb.org/forum/t-349778/how-about-3tb-external-hdd-in-tomato-firmware#post-1132905
Fri, 22 Apr 2011 05:15:25 +0000davygravy521940
LinkStationPro V2 is what I run now. It came w/ the original stockfirmware, but I put a serial header on the pcb, used minicom to interface w/ teh bootloader… triggered it to tftp in an initramfs kernel w/ some utilities on it… reformated the disk, debootstrapped a Lenny rootfs.

I had worked on the foonas.org project, so I had the kernels and understanding of how to redirect the bootloader into running something non-stock.

LinkStationwiki.net has all of the info, and even the files/images/tarballs.

The older LinkStation1 ran a PPC, the LS2 ran a mipsel (very close to an rb500 board), the LSHG ran a faster PPC w/ Gb enet, and then Buffalo moved to the ARM9 platform (SoC). My box has a ?? 500MHz Orion SoC, draws only about 20W or so. Newer models have ARM processors prolly twice that speed.

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http://tomatousb.org/forum/t-349778#post-1132871Re: How about 3Tb external HDD in tomato firmwarehttp://tomatousb.org/forum/t-349778/how-about-3tb-external-hdd-in-tomato-firmware#post-1132871
Fri, 22 Apr 2011 04:31:22 +0000ray123522497
Dave, I hate to do thread hijacking ……. but now I'm intrigued. What Linkstation devices do you have that you've got Lenny/Squeeze running on? Did they come that way or did you have to reflash firmware? Is there some Tomato/dd-wrt equivalent for them? What cpu/ram do they have? I took a quick look at Buffalo's site and they only talk about the sizzle, not the steak. For thel life of me I can't figure out what is the difference between the CX "cloudStor" and the WX series, other than the CX is cheaper. Also noted with amusement that Walmart has the LS-WX1.0TL/1D for $10 less that Newegg.

I am currently using a cobbled-together homebrew PC running Lucid as a NAS with a 3-disk RAID5 (3-750GB). I also have it doing time-scheduled cron jobs to automatically download stock quotes and stuffing them into a csv file. When I started playing with Tomato, I installed the necessary development software so I can compile Tomato. This originally had an AMD 45W single-core CPU, but when I upgraded a broken desktop I freed up an AMD 64 dual core 3800+ and that's what it's running now. Gross overkill for my needs. Its got 3GM ram, because all my obsoleted SIMM got migrated to it. I could probably do Tomato development in a virtualbox on my main Windows desktop, just never bothered to try it yet. I suspect that compiling in a vbox on an AMD X2 255 would be faster than native on the 3800+. I don't use the console, I connect to it with Xmanager from my Windows machine.

In terms of NAS devices, if you are Linux-literate, you might want to consider buying an NAS that can be 'opened" or hacked to run Debian.

I've got various Buffalo LinkStation devices that run Lenny or Squeeze. From my experiences, it is so much more useful to have a really workable Linux distro on them - you can install nearly anything you want to from .deb packages, and if it isn't available as a package, you can download the source and (slowly) build it natively. My main box is a LinkStation Pro running Lenny, with a 2TB sata drive, and an attached 2TB USB drive that it rsyncs to once a week. Network speed on these is around 15MB-20MB/sec write.

Some of the newer NAS boxes that have snappier ARM9 processors may be able to give speeds better than those.

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http://tomatousb.org/forum/t-349778#post-1132418Re: How about 3Tb external HDD in tomato firmwarehttp://tomatousb.org/forum/t-349778/how-about-3tb-external-hdd-in-tomato-firmware#post-1132418
Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:59:39 +0000ray123522497
3TB on a router? LOL!!! That wouldn't be a router with a 3TB drive on it.

That would be a 3TB drive with a router attached. From newegg: Seagate 3TB Freeagent external drive: $180 Asus RT-N16: $75

But, you, it would work.

If I was seriously thinking about doing that, I'd rather get a NAS (Seagate 3TB GoFlex is $219). Plug it into the router and let the router, um, do the routing, and then you can access the storage at full ethernet speed of 1000MB.